Archive for the 'Animal Style' Category

04
December
2008
tags: Mr. Spastic, minusbaby, Role Model, USK, Stu, Anamanaguchi, Blip Festival, Animal Style, 8bitpeoples, Nullsleep, Bit Shifter, glomag, trash80, Mp3.

Blip Fest 2008 Mega Post!

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Normally Trixie brings you all the hot chiptunes jams, but since she’s off being important, I figured I’d step up to plate this time.

Maybe you’ve noticed the banner added to the top of our site about a month ago? Well that’s Blip Festival, and it starts…. TONIGHT!

It’s international mayhem of the chiptunes variety; taking Game Boys (DMGS), Ataris, Nintendos, 8-bit emulator VSTs, Commodore 64s, Nintendo DS’s (and just about anything else you can think of), our stalwart adventurers hack, slash and tweak the hardware in ways mere mortals thought impossible, creating the most epic music you’ve heard in a long long time (or at least since you beat Metroid for that first time).

It starts tonight with full on mayhem, and continues for 4 days until the final level Showdown on Sunday. The Brooklyn half of Res is heavily involved in the chiptunes scene, and let me just tell you that the past two nights of non-official events have already been insane beyond belief. Tickets can be purchased here!

This year the journey takes place @ The Bell House in Park Slope
The Bell House
149 7th Street
Brooklyn NY 11215 US (map)

And now.. the MEGA POST (there’s echo on that, fyi)

Nullsleep | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Saturday night at 11:20 PM

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Nullsleep - “Supernova Kiss”
LINKS: 8BP Profile | nullsleep.com

USK | Fukuoka, Japan | Performs: Sunday night at 10:00 PM

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USK - “Shanghai Moon”
LINKS: USK on 8bp | usk.cc

minusbaby | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 12:00 AM

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minusbaby - “Minha Caipirinha É Ótima (Very, Very)”
LINKS: minusbaby on 8BP | minusbaby.com

Glomag | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 11:20 PM

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glomag - “4shame (8bc 48 hour challenge)”
LINKS: glomag.com

Trash80 | Los Angeles, California, USA | Performs: Sunday night at 10:40 PM

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Trash80 - “At Teh Disko”
LINKS: Trash80 on 8bp | trash80.net

Bit Shifter | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 11:20 PM

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Bit Shifter - “Hexadecimal Genome”
LINKS: Bitshifter on 8bp | bit.shifter.net

Animal Style | Philadelphia, PA, USA | Performs: Friday night at 8pm

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Animal Style - “Bit Scrape”
LINKS: Animal Style on 8bp | MySpace

Mr. Spastic | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Saturday night at 8:40 PM

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Mr. Spastic - “Ichi Ni San Cuatro”
LINKS: Mr. Spastic on 8bp | mrspastic

Role Model | Stockholm, Sweden | Performs: Friday night at 10:00 PM

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Role Model - “Boy Afraid”
LINKS: Role Model on 8bp | Website

Anamanaguchi | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Sunday night at 9:20 PM

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Anamanaguchi - “Fast Turtle”
LINKS: Anamanaguchi on 8bp | MySpace

Stu | Basel, Switzerland | Performs: Saturday night at 12:00 AM

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Stu - “AUCR”
LINKS: Stu on 8bp | Website

Not enough? Check out 8bitpeoples for over 89 quality creative commons releases! RSVP on Going or Facebook and then purchase tickets here. Blip Fest is also brought to you by The Tank, so swing by and check out what other events those crazy kids have going on.

Ok… lets dance!


Blip Festival 2008: The Promo from Richard Alexander Caraballo on Vimeo.

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21
August
2008
tags: Data Dog, Less than Three, the fearsome sparrow, Animal Style, 8bitpeoples, The Tank, Mp3.

Less than Three returns– Adorable line-up for Saturday Night

The Tank’s night of crush-worthy electronic music returns for a second date! A wild-at-heart, all animal line-up will make you sway wistfully to their blissful beats– Animal Style with his guitar and Game Boy and VBlank with his mastery of eclectic visuals from lo-fi to hi-fi will be coming up from Philadelphia to join NYC’s own Data Dog and the fearsome sparrow for the bimonthly music series.

Less than Three August 21, 2008

Animal Style is on the artsier, R&D tip of this whole chiptunes scene. Don’t get me wrong, he’s got a good beat and you can dance to it, but he’s also pushing the envelope with things like popularizing the 8-bit fuzz pedal and developing his own Game Boy foot controller, as well as his release Game Boy Madrigals, a full album of chipmusic made with the 2-3 voice constraints of the traditional Renaissance song form.

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Open Air — Animal Style

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Bit Scrape — Animal Style

(Both from the “Open Air” EP on 8bitpeoples.*)

Data Dog are reminiscent of Her Space Holiday with a double dose of Marc Bianchi’s vocals or a minimal cuddlegaze dance act fronted by the ghost of Eliot Smith. They’re cute and sexy, in a tragic, save-me-from-myself kind of way that girls with cardigans and glasses fetishes will likely use as the soundtrack for shy grad-school dorm room make-out sessions with their doctoral candidate TAs.

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Native Frog — Data Dog

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Colour Bomb — Data Dog

the fearsome sparrow, who apparently got together in San Diego, have fittingly moved east where their brand of melancholy, girl-meets-boy idm has two seasons in which to fit, Autumn AND Winter, instead of 365 days of sunshine. Liz Godoy’s sweet, plaintive soprano and Brenden Beu’s charmingly unsure tenor are enough to make you fall head over heels through your headphones, while glitched out, skittish electronic textures keep things from becoming cloyingly sweet.

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Colossus — the fearsome sparrow

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My Formative Years — the fearsome sparrow

(Both from their album shimmer, available for download here.)

*All 8bitpeoples releases are released under this Creative Commons License.

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